Big cats are just regular cats… but bigger, so it makes sense to confuse them sometimes, right?
It doesn't happen very often, but we have seen it happen before. Of course, usually, when this happens, people confuse wild kittens for big cats, not fully grown mountain lions. We have seen people accidentally adopt bobcats, more than once, because baby bobcats look just like kittens with slightly funky ears and tails. We have seen someone accidentally adopt a puma, thinking that it was just a funny-looking kitten. We have seen people accidentally adopt Norwegian Forest, Maine Coon cats and other large cat varieties that are not big cats but are still something that you don't generally find by accident.
But even with everything that we have seen, a group of fully grown adults confusing an adorable ginger cat… that is slightly on the chonkier side, with a whole mountain lion - that is a first for us. And it was a first for everyone else that was involved as well. Thankfully, it was an orange cat and not actually a mountain lion. Would have been worse to make this mistake the other way around. And it is certainly a story that the kids at this school will remember forever.
source https://cheezburger.com/43891461/school-locks-down-because-teacher-spots-a-mountain-lion-sending-everyone-into-a-frenzy-turns-out-it